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Frank Hopper
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Initially Posted - 08/02/2005 :  11:53:07  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
The irony of course is that we all consider you the real Master Marine Consultant and have for a long time. congrats on the milestone and thank you for your wisdom.
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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 08/02/2005 :  13:02:14  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 08/03/2005 :  02:55:01  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
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mmac
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Response Posted - 08/04/2005 :  15:29:43  Show Profile
Leon,

I agree with Frank I bet Frank Butler could learn stuff about a C25 from you. Congrats and thanks for all your help.
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DanM
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Response Posted - 08/09/2005 :  21:46:12  Show Profile  Visit DanM's Homepage
Thanks for thousand$ worth of advice.
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 08/13/2005 :  22:51:41  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
Congrats Leon!!

I'm back in Jax and was wondering if you got to see Discovery take off from your boat. I was still working in Ocala but was able to take a work break and took my crew out onto a long boardwalk where we watched it go up. One day I will be down there close by to see a launch from Chick-a-pea.
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Leon Sisson
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Response Posted - 08/14/2005 :  09:28:56  Show Profile  Visit Leon Sisson's Homepage
Thank you all for your kind compliments. I'm glad to hear that I've been helpful.

Hi Ben! No, I didn't get to watch this launch from my boat. I was at work when it finally lifted off at 10:39am on Tuesday, July 26. I watched it from in front of the NASA Headquarters building where I work. The popular launch viewing procedure there is to watch the countdown on closed circuit TVs in the lobby up to the last few seconds. Then we all crowd out the doors like excited little kids to see the rocket rise above the tree line. Even at that distance the roar is a very physical experience. Car alarms go off in the parking lots. The sound waves shake everything including the ground. Inside the big office buildings, things move around on desks like a minor earthquake. Once several years ago, I got too involved in what I was working on, and lost track of the countdown, so I was still indoors when the count reached T-0. When the pressure waves reached the Space Station Processing Facility where I was working at the time, I was impressed to see my 21" CRT monitor move on my desk. Being there for launches is a wonderful side benefit to working at KSC. It puts a silly grin on my face just thinking about it!

By the way, the shortest shuttle launch viewing distances from a boat seem to be 8nm from Banana Creek off the Indian River east of Titusville, and 12nm from the Banana River near Port Canaveral. I'm not sure what the launch day keep out radius is in the ocean -- if it's not too large, that might be an even better view.

-- Leon Sisson
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Frank Hopper
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Response Posted - 08/14/2005 :  14:29:49  Show Profile  Visit Frank Hopper's Homepage
Leon,
When I was an Airman at Vandenberg AFB in 1969 I did some work on the launch pad for the shortly to be cancelled MOLE (maned orbiting lab experiment) project launch pad. We had lots of launches out there at VAFB, mostly little tactical stuff. Once a friend of mine and I were on a firebreak road, too close to the launch of what I remember to be an Atlas (but without the two boosters that MOLE was going to use). We were too close, did I mention that? The blat effect, that I assumed was caused by the atmosphere slamming together to fill the voids left by the combustion, was an amazing effect. It was so much more than a sound. This was not the last stupid thing I did in the AF but it was certainly one of the most memorable.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 08/14/2005 :  20:38:44  Show Profile
A late addition... I've always thought it was silly that I had that MMC title when guys like Leon Sisson and Bill Holcomb didn't. If the value of our posts were worked into a ranking equation, I'd be a swabbie and they'd be Fleet Admirals. Thanks, Leon!
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ronrryan
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Response Posted - 08/14/2005 :  22:11:52  Show Profile
Leon, as the "standard meter" is to measurement, so are you as to throrough and seamanlike procedures! Thank you for everything (and PLEASE post everything to the Tech Tips section--we NEED your advice), Ron srsk Orion SW FL
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mwalkup
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Response Posted - 08/14/2005 :  22:13:33  Show Profile
Leon,
For the last three years I've been on and off our web site here.

During this time you have either directly on indirectly helped me probably more than you know. I would like to at this time, thank you, you've been a true gentleman.

How the handful of you dedicated few post the way you do, can only be classified, as nothing short of a major labor of love.
You're the oil that keeps this engine going.
Thanks again!
Mike
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thaind
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Response Posted - 08/16/2005 :  19:56:31  Show Profile
In the year or so that I have been on this site I have found that in all cases Leon's methods and suggestions represent the top standard. After reading I can then decide whether to shoot for them or not.

Thanks for all, and I hope to read 1000 more.
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